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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Take Control of Your Official Website First and foremost, and especially if you have previously relied on other professionals for such a task, you need to familiarize yourself with the official company website for your business and seek to optimize SEO efficiency.

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5 Why's and a How

CEO Blog

At one of the boards I am on, discussion turned to efficiency. It is a great and fairly simple way to figure out where companies can gain efficiencies. Eliminating these points and figuring out how to make them smoother can add efficiency. Often efficiency is limited by IT. I suggested the 5 Why''s process.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF) , that addresses this wicked problem. Addressing the agriculture value chain—soil testing, facilitation of inputs and credit, market linkage, and field advisory services—is part and parcel of agriculture development initiatives.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

That’s part and parcel of Mary’s success, and the rest of the team plays well together, too.” Bringing teaming into an organization plagued by legacy routines and mindsets is critical to reviving innovation and employee engagement. Innovation is always the product of teaming. They play well as a team.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

The Garment District’s agglomeration economies foster the freedom necessary for creativity to thrive, which is part and parcel of how great dresses are made in the first place. It instead is the interworkings and interventions of a highly efficient and effective cluster of firms and those who work for them.